Cheap Trick have settled their differences with drummer Bun E Carlos, says frontman Robin Zander.
Carlos, real name Brad Carlson, launched a lawsuit against his colleagues in 2013, claiming he’d been forced out of the band’s company and they’d withheld his share of profits.
He’d stopped playing live with them in 2010, but argued he was still “a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects.” He said he’d been shocked when they recorded a track without him in 2012.
In October a judge refused the band’s request to have the lawsuit dismissed.
But Zander tells our own Eddie Trunk, “We’ve settled our differences. Bun E’s a member of the band, but he’s not touring and he’s not recording. We’ve had our differences but we’re all settled up now. Hopefully we can forget about that era. The decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E is part of.”
Carlos hasn’t made a public statement, but he wished guitarist Rick Nielsen a happy birthday via Facebook in December.
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source: classicrock.teamrock.com
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only in the make believe world of entertainment can you have a deal like this,while the rest of us have to work for a living…
It’s called still owning your part of the business. Rock bands are a business deal
Think of music like software. Once you are credited as a creator, it can not be used in public without your permission. Bun E. deserves to be paid, and so should Michael Anthony from VH in my opinion.
Anyone who thinks it’s easy to write hit music and live off it, just try it.
Robin is wrong – Bun isn’t a band member. That would entail working in the band. Bun is a member of the “corporation”, i.e. cashing checks for what his former bandmates do while he sits on his ass.